Bunnies and Bears

I'll be arriving the morning of May 2nd and leaving in the afternoon of May 10th. Ping me!

Since I've been posting to Posterous lately and not so much to other places, I thought that I would go ahead and enable auto-posting from Posterous, so those of you that keep tabs on me from other media (read...basically everybody, since I have almost no friends on Posterous) can see what I'm up to.

Most of my autoposts to livejournal will probably be from my more LJ-like blog at happythoughts.posterous.com,  but I'm also keeping a more media-ful (and potentially more interesting) blog at hawksley.posterous.com. I will probably autopost to facebook from both. (The images are not autoposted behind a cut for LJ and I often upload a bunch of images at a time)

Anyhow, for the two people who want to know what's going on with my life...there you are.

ps. Posterous is awesome.

Looking into my fridge this morning as I packed lunch for the day I noticed that the cherries were in a little ick puddle.
"Ew, have the cherries gone bad already," I thought as I picked the bag up by the corner. But, no, the dripping seemed to be coming from above the cherries...
"Oh shoot! I forgot about the gravlax!" (and apparently also failed to seal it well enough and all of the curing juices were dripping out)

In conclusion,
Gravlax attempt #1:
Successfully Cured? yes
Dill-y? yes
Proper texture? yes
Unpalatably Salty? yes
Still Good? technically

...I threw it out, I guess I could have used it as flavorful salt replacement in something or another, but the saltiness was definitely a bit much. For the next attempt: less salt (the recipe was *per pound*, doh) + less curing time (don't forget about it...)

(That said, it was actually quite good beyond the being way to salty to actually eat, so there *will* be a next time)

Step 1: Climb for the first time in several months
Step 2: Be really sore

...but as to why all the soreness  is constrained to one spot in my mid-back that shouldn't have even really gotten a workout I have no idea.

Send one word at a time, get feedback on which are missing. Even better than ping:

a blue cherry digging elephant finds going 'harumph' is just kaleidoscopically lifelike moreover now other purple quiescent rhododendrons sketchily televise unusually vapid water xylophones yelling 'zenography!'

I really love my tablet PC, but it turns out that a lot of people aren't so big on them. It occurs to me that my fondness for it might be correlated with my tendency to print everything out (including code) when I'm working on something and mark things up on paper...hmm...

When I post to something to Posterous, I like to say that it's been 'posterized'. In conclusion, 'posterize' a new word or what?